How are people on Valentine's Day of seventh evening of the seventh moon in lunarcalendar the activity is had a look at on Valentine's Day of seventh evening of the seventh moon in lunarcalendar

How are people on Valentine's Day of seventh evening of the seventh moon in lunarcalendar the activity is had a look at on Valentine's Day of seventh evening of the seventh moon in lunarcalendar
The 16th of August of 2010, The seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the most romantic seventh evening of the seventh moon in lunarcalendar festival in traditional festival that it is China,Activity on Valentine's Day of seventh evening of the seventh moon in lunarcalendar The most general custom, even if the women yes various carried on at night on the seventh day of July beg skillful activity.
It begs skillful ways to be whether girl try to make a match, test skillful, it makes some little article to be skillful in match mostly, lay out some melon and fruit and beg skillfully, it is not the same that each area begs the skillful way, each interesting.
In the intersection of Shandong and the intersection of Jinan, Huimin, Gaoqing,etc. and to it begs skillful activities to be very much simple place, just display the melon and fruit to beg skillfully, if the in the family way spider weaves a net above the melon and fruit, mean begging skillfully. And the intersection of Juan and city, Cao County, plain and other places take skillful skillful meal, it begs the skillful custom to be very much interesting: Seven best girls collect the grain and collect dishes and make dumplings, wrap up a copper cash, a needle and a red date into three pieces of boiled meat dumpling respectively, beg after the skillful activity, they get together, absorb water dumpling, legend it has money to be blissful, the ones that had the needle are skillful with one's hands, have the early marriage of the date.
The activities of begging skillful festival of some places, the properties with contest, the custom of competing in ingenuity that similar to ancient times. The modern one tries to make a match, steaming is contrary to, bake the skillful fruit skillfully, also some places have custom of the soup of skillful bud, generally soak the grain on the first day of July and sprout in water, on of seventh evening of the seventh moon in lunarcalendar, cut buds make soup, children of this place pay attention to, take skillful bud especially, and to compete in ingenuity development of the custom with dough model, paper-cut, coloured embroidery ornament,etc. that form make. But the shepherd boy will pluck the wild flower to hang at the ox horn on the day in the seventh evening of the seventh moon in lunarcalendar, named " L Congratulate the ox birthday " (legend is the birthday of the ox in the seventh evening of the seventh moon in lunarcalendar) .
Call rain under in seventh evening of the seventh moon in lunarcalendar in the area of Zhu Cheng, the Teng 's " The lovesickness rain " R Or " L Lovesickness and tears " ,Because it is that the the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid meet. There are extremely few magpies on place legend such as the intersection of glue and east, southwest of Shandong, all go to the sky to put up to Magpie Bridge.
There is similar begging the skillful custom in today Zhejiang all parts. For instance Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places, make various babies with the flour on this day, fry the oil, call " L The skillful fruit " ,Skillful fruit, seedpod of the lotus, white lotus root, red water chestnut,etc. are displayed in the courtyard in the evening. The girl wears the needle to the moon, in order to earnestly hope the Weaving-girl can grant with the skillful skill, or catch one spider, put in the box, opened the box to call skillfully like already weaving a net the next day.
And is continuing and revitalizing the countryside and there are a lot of young girls to hide stealthily alone under the pumpkin canopy luxuriantly this night, secret words if can hear the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid meet when in the dead of night, to be married young girl this in the future can get millennium love of Chongqing this.
For express people, hope the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid can live bright the intersection of happiness and hope of family life everyday, in regions of Zhejiang Jinhua, every family should kill a chicken on July 7, mean the Cowherd and the Weaving Maid meet this night, except for the cock heralds the break of day, they can never separate.
In the west of Guangxi, in the morning of July 7 of legend, the fairy maiden wants to descend to the mortal world and have a bath, drink its longevity of avoiding evil spirits and curing the disease to prolong of water of bath. This water name " L Pair of seven water " ,People fall over each other to go to the bank of the river to fetch water, hold with the new urn after fetching when the chicken chirps this day, wait to use in the future.
The begging skillful festival of Guangzhou shows unique characteristics, before festival comes, the girls prepare against and work well colorful paper, stem pith of the rice-paper plant, cotton rope,etc. in advance, work out into various very skillful small stufves, also put seed-grain and mung bean into and soak in the small box with water, enable germination it, wait for bud to be long to get more than two inches long, come and do obeisance, call " L Visit the celestial standing grain " R Sum " L Do obeisance dishes " . Begin to the seventh day late since the sixth day night, at two nights in a row, the girls put on the new clothes, wear new ornament, after everything arrange properly, burn incense some candle, worship to the starry sky on bended knees, called " L Meet the celestial being " ,Since three should be visited for seven times in succession just before more dawn.

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